Zombies, the origins

Name: Zombies, the origins
Telephone: 04 28 38 12 12
Price range: Full price: 12 €, Reduced price: 7 €. Free entry for children under 18, children accompanied by an adult, the students, disabled people and accompanying persons. Included with the Lyon City Card.
Start: 2025-10-17
End: 2026-08-16

Exhibitions

Last updated date : 21/10/2025

Forget everything you think you know about zombies…

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Zombies, the origins

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Beyond the fantasies of the contagious living-dead in films and pop culture, this exhibition takes you back to the myth's origins to Haiti. There – concurrent with Voodoo culture – we encounter the zombie, an unrepentant criminal judged by a secret society and given a sentence worse than death. This figure has its roots in a complex association between religions from sub-Saharan Africa, cultures of the original peoples of the Caribbean, and the traumatisms of slavery. Discover the history of these little-known beliefs, still actually alive today.

Exhibition organised by the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac.

Practical information

Address

86 quai Perrache - 69002 Lyon 2ème

Languages

French

Prices

Full price: 12 €, Reduced price: 7 €.

Free entry for children under 18, children accompanied by an adult, the students, disabled people and accompanying persons.

Included with the Lyon City Card.

Openings

From 14/06/2025 to 19/04/2026 between 10.30 am and 6.30 pm.
Closed on Monday.

Exhibitions

Zombies, the origins

Musée des Confluences

86 quai Perrache - 69002 Lyon 2ème

04 28 38 12 12

www.museedesconfluences.fr

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Musée des Confluences stop: Tramway - T1 Bus - C7, C10, 15, 63 Musée des Confluences-Gerland car park: (PRM access and cycle parking, go to Parking Tony Garnier) Vehicle entrance: rue Antonin Perrin, 69007 Lyon GPS coordinates: 45°43'54.8 ‘N 4°49'22.6 ’E Musée des Confluences preferential rate: validate your car park ticket when you come to the museum at the dedicated terminals. Information and rates on https://parking.lpa.fr/parkings/musee-des-confluences-gerland/ By bike: Bicycle parking is available on the museum forecourt. A Vélo'v station is also located on the forecourt.

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